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Create a Circuit This Christmas with the Circuit Scribe Maker Kit

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Circuit Scribe offers incredible products which allow you imagine and create while connecting circuits you draw with conductive silver ink.

Circuit Scribe remains one of my favorite companies to shop when it comes to holiday gifts. Their amazing circuit kits keep everyone entertained for hours. Last year, I reviewed the Ultimate Circuit Kit and the Mini Kit. This year, the Maker Kit came to visit OMG Goodies! Don’t miss this STEM project; if we gave awards it would receive the STEM Product of the Year Award from me!

My Thoughts on Circuit Scribe’s Maker Kit:

Everyone take a trip back to science 101. What are circuits? We know they are necessary for electricity. They run our computers and our lights, our cars, appliances, T.V.’s—everything electronic, but what are they?

Circuits allow electrons to flow as energy. When a circuit is closed, then the power is on. Lights light, fans blow, computers turn on. When they are open, nothing runs.

When designing circuits various operations happen, depending on how they are designed. Signals can be interrupted or amplified. Usually, circuits are connected using wires. Circuit Scribe gets rid of the wires and provides us with conductive silver ink.

Conductive silver ink, like wires, allows electrons to flow through closed circuits. Don’t worry, if you touch it you won’t get shocked! However, you can now draw all kinds of fun designs. Experiment with lights, buzzers, blinkers, light sensors, resistors, and even faders with this 17 piece kit!

Here, you can see a couple of quick designs my son and I came up with.

I kept my design simple with the red blue LED. The direction of the red blue LED determines if the red light or the blue light turns on.

My son designed a blinker. By turning the dial on the component found at the bottom the green light blinks either faster or slower.

Sometimes we find these awesome kits but after playing with them for a while we run out of ideas. Other times, we have fantastic ideas and nowhere to show what we’ve come up with. Circuit Scribe understands that science isn’t about working alone. Science includes cooperation and communication. That’s why they have Sketch on their website. Sketch is a place where Circuit Scribe customers can find incredible ideas for circuits. It is also a place where we can share our projects and creations! People have created games, decorations, book covers, holiday cards and more! Be sure to check it out!

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Are you are a teacher? Circuit Scribe also has classroom kits available. Talk to your PTO about helping to fund such incredible STEM products for your classroom!

Purchase your Maker Kit or other Circuit Scribe product on the Circuit Scribe website as well as Amazon.

About the author

Kameo Monson

Kameo has been married for 22 years. She has 2 boys ages 17 and 15, and 2 girls ages 13 and 11. Her interests range from music - especially choir music to gel polish to dresses to reading to camping and hiking. Kameo loves animals and has 3 dogs, a cat, a Guinea pig, a hamster, and some fish in her home. She and her family like to have small excursions to places close to home and enjoy being outside watching her husband and son fly R/C planes or make contacts on their HAM radios.

Kameo started with OMG Goodies in January 2015 and has become a proficient reviewer. Like all of our bloggers, we are happy to have her on the team.